ON SOTJTH-AMEEICAN APOCYNACE^. 227 



a thickish ligneous pericarp, fusiformly oblong, broadish, 5 in. long, 1| in. broad in the 

 middle; seeds many (as in the gen. char.), 8^ lines long, surmounted by a white, widely 

 spreading, recurving coma 18 Knes long. 



A drawing of this species, in flower and in fruit, is shown in Plate XXXII. 



2. Secondatia ploribunda, a. DC. p. 446; Miill. I. c. p. 109. In Brasilia, prov. BaMa, ad Jacobina 



(Blanchet 3370) : non vidi. 



A scandent glabrous species, with slender terete branches ; leaves elliptic, very obtuse 

 at the base, with a lanceolately cuspidate apex ; nerves pellucid, with finely reticulated 

 veins, 2^ in. long, 15-17 lines broad, on petioles 4-5 lines long ; panicles spreading, tri- 

 chotomously divided, a little longer than the leaves, with branches 8-9 lines long, bearing 

 many flowers on very slender pedicels 4-5 lines long, supported by lanceolate bracts 

 ^ line long ; sepals a little larger than the bracts, lanceolate ; tube of corolla glabrous, 

 3 lines long ; segments oblong, a little longer than it ; disk of 5 dentate lobes, a little 

 shorter than the ovaries. 



3. Secondatia foliosa, a. DC. I. c. p. 446; Miill. I. c. p. 109, tab. 32. fig. 1. In Brasilia, prov. Bahia, 



ad Jacobina (Blanchet 3635) et prov. Ceara: v. s. in herb. Mus. Brit. Oeiras (Gardner 1762). 



A glabrous species, dififering from the two preceding in its smaller, more approxi- 

 mate leaves acute at both extremities, with many transversely reticulated veins, IJ-lf 

 in. long, 7-8 lines broad, on petioles 2-3 lines long ; terminal panicles more compact, 

 much shorter than the leaves, with branches 3-4 lines long, bearing many flowers on 

 slender pedicels 2-3 Hues long ; sepals acute, ^ line long ; tube of coroUa 2^ lines long ; 

 segments obUque-oblong, rotate, 2 J lines long. 



4. Secondatia rERRUoiNEA, nob. : Echites ferruginea, Rich. Fl. Cub. xi. p. 92; Walp. Ann. v. p. 494. 

 In Cuba, Guanabacoa (Sagra) : wow vidi. 



A species with a weak branching stem, and slender, red, hirtous branchlets ; leaves 

 small, obtusely elliptic or obovate, obtuse at the base, glabrous above, subferruginously 

 opake beneath, on short petioles ; inflorescence terminal, bearing 3 or many flowers 

 upon rather long pedicels, glabrous ; sepals ovate-acuminate ; corolla small, yellow, 

 funnel-shaped, with a narrow tube nearly three times as long as the sepals ; follicles 2, 

 erect, parallel, acute, 3-4 in. long, 1 in. broad. 



5. Secondatia Schhmiana, MiUl. in Linn. xxx. p. 416. In Nova Granada ad Ocanna (ScUiin 510) : 



non vidi. 



A species with glabrous, terete, obscurely reddish, lenticellate branchlets, with axils 

 4-5 in. apart ; leaves elliptic, acute at the base, cuspidately acuminate, nerves with 

 transverse veins much reticulated, 2-2f in. long, 9|-16J liaes broad, on petioles 5-6 lines 

 long ; a spreading terminal panicle 1^ in. long, much divided, puberulous, many-flowered ; 

 flowers on rigid pedicels 3 lines long ; sepals 1^ line long ; tube of coroUa glabrous, 

 hispid within, 2| lines long; segments obliquely ovoid, glabrous; anthers dorsally 

 pubescent ; disk 5-lobed, as long as the ovaries. 



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